I've just uninstalled Adobe Creative Suite 3 from my laptop. Why, you might ask, would I give up the most excellent Photoshop and Illustrator applications, Acrobat Professional and Flash?
The short answer is because they're just so damn inconvenient and I've found that CorelDraw CX4 is a good replacement for the two applications that I used primarily on the laptop, Photoshop and Illustrator.
You see, Adobe has this really onerous licensing scheme that permits the suite to be installed on only two PCs. They do this by means of a licensing service and a pig of an install program. To uninstall the suite from my laptop took two hours (!) and the laptop seemed to run significantly faster without the licensing service installed.
I'll keep the Adobe Suite on my desktops at home and at work so I can work with Flash and Acrobat Professional but I think Adobe really does their customers a great disservice with the licensing mechanism that they've chosen.
Especially when I compare it with the much less demanding Corel licensing mechanism which basically consists of a forced registration. Go Corel!
The short answer is because they're just so damn inconvenient and I've found that CorelDraw CX4 is a good replacement for the two applications that I used primarily on the laptop, Photoshop and Illustrator.
You see, Adobe has this really onerous licensing scheme that permits the suite to be installed on only two PCs. They do this by means of a licensing service and a pig of an install program. To uninstall the suite from my laptop took two hours (!) and the laptop seemed to run significantly faster without the licensing service installed.
I'll keep the Adobe Suite on my desktops at home and at work so I can work with Flash and Acrobat Professional but I think Adobe really does their customers a great disservice with the licensing mechanism that they've chosen.
Especially when I compare it with the much less demanding Corel licensing mechanism which basically consists of a forced registration. Go Corel!
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